Job Description
Job Description
An opportunity has arisen within Neighbourhoods, Regeneration and Sustainability for an Assistant Planner to join our Development Management team on a permanent basis.
NRS brings together a diverse range of Glasgow City Council operational, technical and development services that focus on sustainable transport, placemaking and delivering essential city services.
If you’re interested in working within a service that touches on all aspects within the city, please read on.
Position Details
If successful you will be part of a development management team reporting to a principal officer/team manager and you will be responsible for supporting a range of the outcomes identified in the Planning Performance Framework for Glasgow.
Key tasks include supporting the development management process by assessing planning applications and related applications within the regulatory planning framework; investigating and analysing information in order that technical advice can be formulated for a range of colleagues, managers and clients for development applications and projects; discussing, explaining and negotiating development proposals with colleagues and external parties in order to achieve positive development outcomes; and, supporting the progress of development in priority regeneration areas of the city as defined by Glasgow City Council policy framework and the work programme.
Further details regarding what this role entails are noted within the Role Profile for the post, whilst the Person Specification document confirms the key competencies you are required to demonstrate in your application.
A degree in a relevant built environment discipline plus student or licentiate membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute are essential requirements for this role.
Contract Details
Weekly Hours: 35
Work Pattern: Monday - Friday
Annual Salary: £32,024.87 - £36,151.72 on an incremental scale
Hybrid working is available in this role. If you’re shortlisted for the post, we look forward to telling you more about our approach to ensuring needs of the business are met along with flexibility to maintain your work-life balance through our family friendly policies, such as our flexible working procedure and work/life balance policy which are available here.
Benefits of working with us
Glasgow City Council employees have access to a wide-ranging and generous benefits package.
Leave Entitlement
These include 182 hours paid annual leave, rising to 203 hours after 5 years’ service, as well as an 87.5 hours paid public holidays each year.
For staff working Monday – Friday, this works out as a starting annual leave entitlement of 26 days, rising to 29 days, and 12.5 days’ public holidays. For staff working a 4 on, 4 off shift pattern it works out as 18 shifts, rising to 20 shifts, and 9 shifts for public holidays.
These amounts are the full-time equivalent, and will be applied pro-rata for part-time appointments, and appointments made during the leave year which runs January – December.
Other Benefits
Details of some other staff benefits, including our contributory pension scheme, can be found here. Whilst details of our conditions of service and policies are available here.
For guidance on completing your application, and to view other benefits on offer for employees of Glasgow City Council, please visit the following link: https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/vacancies.
Please note this is a re advertisement and previous applicants should not re-apply.
Application Packs
We want everyone to be able to apply. If you need the Application Pack in another format, like Braille, large print, or another language, please call us on 0141 287 1054.
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There are also a number of Accessibility Tools compatible with the myjobscotland website which may assist you with your application. More information on these can be found at https://myjobscotland.gov.uk/accessibility-statement.
Further Information
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